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[NorthWoods]

 

Edited Friday at 04:49 PM by NorthWoods

[Hongbit]

He was a very solid ball player for a long time.  Gone too soon. 

[oblong]

dang.... yeah he was indeed a very solid player.  

[lordstanley]

Bummer. He was playing PCL AAA for Vancouver when we first moved to Vancouver, saw him play here a few games.

[NorthWoods]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

dang.... yeah he was indeed a very solid player.  

Definitely from the Hall of Very Good.   2,500+ hits, consistently on the field.   Interesting that BR has the most similar career to be Steve Garvey.

[Hongbit]

Amazingly, Pirates 1B Spencer Horowitz is a perfect 10 for 10 against Tampa pitcher Nick Martinez.  

[NorthWoods]

 

Edited Monday at 03:20 AM by NorthWoods

[Sports_Freak]

This clip of Al Kaline is amazing;

 

[lordstanley]

 

 

[NorthWoods]

 

[Tiger337]

58 minutes ago, NorthWoods said:

 

That field is only about 40 minutes from me. I should go watch a high school game there some day.  

[oblong]

half of htem had a pack of smokes on them and nobody cared

[Biff Mayhem]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

half of htem had a pack of smokes on them and nobody cared

They laughed at us Xers and our candy cigs. Real men light em up. Well, who’s laughing now emphysema boy?

Okay diabeetus boy - them 

[Tigeraholic1]

Made me chuckle

 

 

[oblong]

It goes back to when they played Kokomo the day Brian Wilson died.

 

[Tiger337]

 

[chasfh]

I knew Nick Castellanos was a really bad defender, but I didn’t realize he was this bad: he ranks seventh in lowest defensive WAR of all time among players who have played at least 95% of their career games at defensive positions (i.e., not DH). And it doesn’t help that his OPS+ is the second worst on list that’s visible here.

 

[gehringer_2]

Remember when our farm system had given us two stars in him and Garcia? Good times….

Edited 12 hours ago by gehringer_2

[chasfh]

10 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Remember when our farm system had given us two stars in him and Garcia? Good times….

What got me thinking about looking him up was, I was looking at the Reference card for the 2019 Tigers, they of the 47-114 record, and Nick was literally the only position player on the team with an OPS+ over 100, and his was only 111. Man, what a slog it was to follow that team. The only thing worth talking about that year was the locked-in #1 overall pick.

You can discard this if you want to count pitchers, since Gregory Soto had a 492 OPS+ and Matthew Boyd had a 167 OPS+, in two plate appearances apiece.